Chuplayer

Just cut out the little tabs. It's worth it.

It's run by a political organization calling itself "Communist Party," and that's about it. Like every other communist revolution in history, the actual process of transforming into a true communist society stopped at the "all power becomes controlled by a single group" intermediate stage and never progressed to the "every citizen is equal and is part of the government" final stage. In other words, it's an oligarchy, and it maintains power by outlawing all other political organizations. In the case of mainland China, though, they went so far as to backpedal the economic system and turn it more or less capitalist. You could say it's an even more failed attempt at communism than usual. Indeed, there are lots of poor people, but the lot of rich people (and almost-rich people) is sufficient to provide a subpopulation large enough to support something like the i-Dong. Yeah, that was a stupid thing for her to say. But again, it's not that nobody can afford them; it's that there are not enough who can afford them to theoretically fill more than some fraction of the vacancies, and among those who can, there are really very few who want to move in. After all, if you're rich, why move out of one of the existing major cities, where all your rich buddies are, into what's currently a ghost town? Er, I assume you're being facetious with this paragraph. I've read about the prison WoW operations, too, but surely you don't mean to imply that the game is only a prison task for every Chinese player and not your typical WoW addiction. Ha, never in a million years would I have thought I would find myself trying to improve someone's perception of one of the most disgraceful incarnations of China in history. It should be obvious from things I've written earlier in this thread that I'm not exactly a fan. But then, I never thought I'd run across someone with such an unusual view of the country. That aside, you don't have to be a fan of a country to understand that it's not filled with starving people. Anyway, I hope you recognize that it's not a wasteland of poverty now (wasteland of politics and corruption, that's a different matter). We should let the thread get back on topic. onmode-ky Too lazy to break up quotes. The government has a 51% or greater stake in every business. The government owns all businesses. Communism. I'm not arguing that there is a kind of large population of rich enough people, but I seriously doubt it's that big. Whose numbers are you believing? This is the country that classifies technicians as engineers. Stupid thing for her to say or not, it all comes back to GDP. I'm being semi-facetious about the WoW thing. What if they had every prisoner playing WoW? Surely that's a big chunk of 11 million, and you'd never know because China's flippin' insane. Government employees who oversee rich-people (or even middle class) development projects live in wastelands themselves. Companies put up nets so their employees aren't able to commit suicide. That kid sold a kidney in order to buy an iPad 2. I'm not convinced that the amount of people who are well-off is really that big. Look at that older Nintendo 64-based Chinese video game console, the iQue Player. How did that fare? Considering how I heard about it once and then never heard about it again, I'd imagine it tanked. I googled it, and I barely found more than initial launch news from 2003. It had (has?) an extremely limited library, too.

There may be a lot of rich people, but it's all about proportions. The proportion in correlation with the population means that there is a mind-blowingly large number of poor people. It never occurred to me that the copious apartments are targeted at foreigners because that woman said that the plan was to move the dirt-poor people into the apartments next to the tiny shacks that they were going to bulldoze in order to build even more apartments that nobody can afford. And if they are for foreigners, nobody's biting. It's all about China's GDP. 11 million WoW players? And how many people are in prison over there again? And how many of them are mining gold in said prisons? Who knows? It's China. They're insane. I've never talked to a worker for The Great People's Republic of China's PR machine before. This is interesting.

I'd still never buy the game. As it just means if I ever bought the disc and the patch later becomes unavailable for whatever reason... Considering you can download patches independently of GFWL for GFWL games, I don't think that will be a problem. Here's Dirt 2 for example: http://www.joystiq.com/game/dirt-2/download/dirt-2-v11-patch/ Worried about patches becoming unavailable? Do what I do and always keep them around after you download them. I literally scrounged through sites in foreign languages I didn't understand to find patches for old SEGA PC games, and you know I'm not going to do that again if I don't have to.

It has been decided that the DRM will be changed. I guess it has gone gold with the DRM already, but it will get patched out immediately. http://www.capcom-unity.com/sven/blog/2011/06/02/ssfiv:_ae_pc_%E2%80%93_drm:_we_had_it_wrong

I never said it was right for the hackers to do what they're doing, and I feel for the people affected. I'm one of them. However, this is as right as it's probably going to get.

I never said that. That's one of those line blurring things. Did I have Other OS support on my PS3 previously? Yes. Do I currently have Other OS support on my PS3? No. Well, I do now because I installed CFW, but I didn't for a while.

Whose numbers are you reading and believing? Because the Chinese government literally hires people to manage building projects for major urban construction and doesn't pay them enough to live in the places they managed. They live in a shack with another family instead. Oh, and just about nobody lives in those big urban developments either. I mean, holy Toledo.

You and the rest of the people who bought the PS3 for that reason could be compared to a squirt of piss in a pool. (No I'm not saying you personally are piss, I'm illustrating you're in an extreme minority.) And I don't give a damn. They stole my functionality. They're getting their just desserts. Karma. I hope they either restore Other OS or completely cancel the Playstation brand due to these hacking shenanigans. The hackers might not be right, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't rooting for them. Nobody else is coming to my aid, and sometimes a hero is a person who blurs the line between right and wrong.

Actually, it wasn't. The straw that broke the camel's back was an extensive hardware hack that, while utilizing Other OS, barely worked. Up until that point, Sony had people jumping through their own buttholes in order to exploit the system. Nobody even considered the comparative simplicity of the key fiasco until Sony removed Other OS.

Did certain games also require firmware update? Gran Turismo 5 comes to mind, with firmware v3.50. I can't remember specifics about what was up in that case, since I upgraded right away, but it would suck to have to choose between advertised features. I also think patches might work with just internet connectivity (PSN not required). Even with PSN down, I've been able to update disc games. Yes, that, too. So it was either Sony stealing Other OS or preventing me from playing new games and accessing PSN content. I was screwed either way, and by choosing to update, Sony did indeed steal functionality from me. And I'm less upset about the hackers having my personal information and stuff and more upset with the fact that the protections Sony put in place were beyond insufficient and irresponsibly awful. Like I said, the fact that hackers got in is a casualty. The way Sony has conducted themselves doesn't help their status in my view. And the millions without PSN access? Well, the people who appreciated Other OS may not number quite that many, but our claims to the continued accessibility of Other OS are no less legitimate. Hackers may have wronged the millions, but Sony themselves wronged me and every other person who spent money on the console for the purposes, in part or in full, of Other OS.

It is when it was something that was sold to us and then taken away. When Other OS comes back to PS3s, then I'll stop supporting the hackers. Sony came into my home and stole functionality from me. I literally scrounged up and paid $500 for that functionality while working a minimum wage part time job during college. People like me have a justification for being upset. And there are other reasons, but we've already been through them a zillion times. The bottom line here is that Sony came into our homes via the internet and took away functionality from my PS3 console. The fact that some jackass executive decided to play games with my functionality, do a cost/benefit analysis of the benefits to their profits vs. the costs of stealing something I paid for, and then go through with the theft of my Other OS functionality brings my blood to a boil. Granted, it's not quite Pinto Memo bad, but it's still no trivial matter. I have absolutely zero sympathy for Sony in these hacking situations. At this point in the game I COMPLETELY disagree with you. When your hacking into a service with millions of customers personal information thats not doing anybody any good. Thats not cool. In fact they had access to my credit card info and my personal info. I was affected by it. Not cool. In fact I'm fucking pissed. They can hack Sony.com and put a splash gag page up I dont care. I dont have sympathy for Sony. But to hack into millions of users personal info and bring down a service that I fucking use is not cool. In fact its criminal. Fuck them. (I think I pretty much pointed out my final unwavering stance on the subject) This isnt cool to do. Good hackers know that as a fact. I am also upset that the personal information and whatnot got stolen. However, it was Sony that stole Other OS from me. The personal information was just a casualty. The lack of access to the PSN is a casualty. Casualties happen.

It is when it was something that was sold to us and then taken away. When Other OS comes back to PS3s, then I'll stop supporting the hackers. Sony came into my home and stole functionality from me. I literally scrounged up and paid $500 for that functionality while working a minimum wage part time job during college. People like me have a justification for being upset. And there are other reasons, but we've already been through them a zillion times. The bottom line here is that Sony came into our homes via the internet and took away functionality from my PS3 console. The fact that some jackass executive decided to play games with my functionality, do a cost/benefit analysis of the benefits to their profits vs. the costs of stealing something I paid for, and then go through with the theft of my Other OS functionality brings my blood to a boil. Granted, it's not quite Pinto Memo bad, but it's still no trivial matter. I have absolutely zero sympathy for Sony in these hacking situations.

That's probably the fault of the switch box. My old 7800 switch box started going last summer. I then soldered wires in the box bypassing the switch, and I've had a crystal clear RF signal ever since. Granted, I can't switch back and forth between the console and the antenna, but I just keep the system on the tail end of the line so other systems can get their signals through and pass the 7800 through.

Ys I&II Chronicles Ys: Oath in Felghana Ys Seven Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast I highly recommend using CFW. You get access to emulators and stuff, and it rules. In addition, it allows you to max the CPU speed for any game, so older games that were throttled down to save on battery life (such as Outrun 2006) can get a slight to significant performance boost. This works on UMD games, too. I do it myself for my UMD copy of Outrun 2006. It makes the game run as smoothly as the console and PC versions.

The only thing I genuinely didn't like about the Advantage is that the buttons sometimes get stuck in the holes. I found it to be wholly useless because of that. Well, maybe not wholly. You can get some Pac-Man gaming done with it.

I found the owl to be more annoying than Navi, to be honest. Especially in that one part where you want to skip through the really lengthy dialog really fast but then the owl asks if you want him to repeat it and while you're button mashing you don't realize that you told him to tell you again, so you have to sit through all that again and hope you're careful enough next time in order to end his visit so you can get on with your game.

I love Regular Show. I think it's the best thing on TV right now. The Master System has been making random appearances since the first few episodes. On one episode, a character in the game they're playing possesses the system, TV, and controllers, and it begins to fight the characters on the show. It's really funny.

Here are my thoughts in video form. Check out all the older games that aren't restricted by DRM and think about how much more we love them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_3uulWaEo

EDIT: It has been announced that the DRM is being patched out immediately after the game launches, so there will be no asinine offline restrictions. I'm keeping this blog and video up as an example of why DRM doesn't work, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_3uulWaEo Video games were better when DRM wasn't so asinine.

It's available on PS3, 360, and PC. It's only available as a complete package on the PC. For the PS3 and 360, it's going to be available as a $15 DLC for SSF4 (not AE) owners as well as a standalone disc. Personally, I'd wait for the standalone disc.

This blows. I was going to get the PC version on Steam, too. I blame this on current-day business practices. I literally dropped out of business school because it was so god dang abhorrent. Only college-educated individuals can make decisions such as this one. You've got to be one head on a twelve-headed jackass in order to be this dumb.

Why wouldn't they sell it to you? Refusing a sale doesn't make much sense. Preorder was the wrong word, so I'm not trying to confuse anyone. What I meant to say was when they were taking and fulfilling orders for Gold, I was disregarded. I do not know Doug's reasons, as he never told me directly. He simply ignored my various emails, when Gold was available for sale. I'd have to dig through my emails on my old Mac, but I'm pretty certain he even made a remark about me trying to order Gold. I do know he was bent over me selling my original copy on eBay. I won this copy through that Atari auction site that emerged years ago, when Doug was putting up copies on there. Contrary to what he may have thought, I did not retire to South Beach via the sale of my copy. Gosh only knows what he thought about what. The other reason I can guesstimate on is he never liked me much to begin with. What a miserable group of people.

Why wouldn't they sell it to you? Refusing a sale doesn't make much sense.

NBA Jam TE White Men Can't Jump That's all I know. Wasn't there a Worms port for the Jaguar? Isn't that game multiplayer friendly?